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THE SETUP
Although told in third person, the story is mostly seen though the eyes of Nick Waters and his (girl)friend Marta Gonzales. The day after their biology teacher (Mrs. Starch) humiliates her marginally-delinquent student Duane Scrod (Smoke), she disappears. Nick and Marta, of course, investigate. They discover that Mrs. Starch, Duane, and swamp rat Twilly Spree are trying to reunite a Florida panther cub with its mother, and defeat an oil company engaged in illegal drilling.

COMMENTS
"Scat" is destined to become a middle-school reading standard, at least in Florida. What the students will remember most is their teacher's awkward explanation of the title. And then, of course, every year older kids will spread the old joke regarding Duane's last name (the past pluperfect of ...)--which will set him in concrete as an unforgettable character. This is typical Hiaasen humor--"kid's scatological", even in his adult books. It is more appropriate here, and honestly, just good fun.

This is a particularly great book for parents to read with older elementary to middle school-age kids. There are a host of strong valuable messages for the kids. Parents will enjoy the opportunity to share these messages, while being just as entertained by the story. I wound not suggest reading the book to younger kids----the book may get old on the twentieth successive re-reading.

The illegal oil exploration will undoubtedly strike many readers as far-fetched. Few folks, even in Southwestern Florida, know that petroleum has been produced from the Big Cypress Swamp for nearly 70 years. The few operating horsehead pumps are actually a scenic attraction.

The audio version may be tempting. Resist the temptation. Ed Asner's narration is inconsistent, and he mispronounces several place names. Asner's attempts at Southern accents are lame. He mispronounced the name of the local Native American Miccosukee tribe (correctly pronounced "mic-o-sukey) as "micuss-a-key", and mispronounced Fakahatchee (a portion of the Big Cypress) with a "uck" instead of the "ak". Really! I replayed the section 5 times to be sure. I suppose Ed Asner was chosen for his public image as a lovable curmudgeon. He has never seemed so to me.

THE VERDICT
Hiaasen has finally found his niche--kid's books which adults will love. His adult books are wildly humorous and entertaining, but surreal, possibly best described as "severely mentally disturbed 19-year-old guy humor". His kid's books are much better.

> Click on “Stoney” just below the product title to see my other reviews, or leave a comment to ask a question.


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Scat Carl Hiaasen 9780375834868 Books Reviews

Entertaining enough young adult reading. Hiaasen's familiar targets--developers, grafters, despoilers of the land, etc.---but without the profanity and extreme punishments for the bad guys. Principal white hat characters are high school kids and their relatives. As an adult reader, I'm addicted to the author's main line of books with all their highly inventive extremes, but this "cadet" series can be diverting too. My favorite so far in this latter category is "Chomp", which was hilarious.
originally i picked up "Razor Girl" and thoroughly enjoyed it. So I ordered his four best sellers.
I should have been a bit more diligent. The four I ordered [SCAT, CHOMP, HOOT and FLUSH] are all "young adult books.
I have now read all four and they were very good. I am now passing them on to my grand children. Good plots and characters. Great messages and all very good reads.
Scat ended up being hilarious and I'm glad I read it. It also takes place in Florida, a state where I used to live and spend a good deal of time so that attracted me as well.

So Scat follows a Florida kid named Nick, whom I guessed to be around 14 or so and whose father is on reserve in Iraq and his friend Marta. So one day Nick and his class are on a field trip when the swamp that they're visiting catches fire. Mrs. Starch — the feared and unliked biology teacher, vanishes into the fire to retrieve an inhaler that a student had dropped. The bus leaves without Mrs. Starch as she came in her own car.

The next school day, the principal tells the students that Mrs. Starch has been called away on a "family emergency," but Nick and Marta aren't buying it — especially once that discover that Mrs. Starch has no family so they feel that there's something very fishy about Bunny Starch's disappearance.

They figure the scary, pencil-eating class delinquent, Smoke, who has a history of starting fires, has something to do with her disappearance, especially once authorities state that the fire was due to arson. But they're not the only ones who suspect that Smoke started the fire. But there's more to Smoke than meets the eye.

But there's also a lot more that goes on in the book there's the dodgy oil exploration company run by a shady, nefarious fellow who is scamming the state by installing illegal pipelines in the Everglades, which is a nature preserve, there's an endangered panther that's being hunted, the strange eco-avenging wilderness man who seems to be sabotaging the oil company's efforts, and of course, the mystery of what in the hell happened to Bunny Stark.

This madcap book was quite a wild romp - an edge-of-your-seat gripping thrill ride that had me interested — and laughing until the end, as it was hysterically funny in many places with a great cast of characters. I thought the premise of this book was fascinating, and Carl Hiaasen turns this premise into an exciting, fast-paced eco-thriller that I had a hard time putting down.

Though this was a light-hearted enjoyable romp, the book does touch on some serious issues as well such as war, crime, environment preservation, amputation and neglectful parents but does so in a smooth way so as not to make the novel unnecessarily grim or frightening, as this is a middle-grade book, after all. And as many of us like to see in our Middle-grade reads, the bad guys get it good in the end.

I do believe that is is part of a four-book middle-grade series that I definitely will be checking out. I also want to check out some of his adult fiction as well.

This review originally posted to my book review blog at rogersreads.com
THE SETUP
Although told in third person, the story is mostly seen though the eyes of Nick Waters and his (girl)friend Marta Gonzales. The day after their biology teacher (Mrs. Starch) humiliates her marginally-delinquent student Duane Scrod (Smoke), she disappears. Nick and Marta, of course, investigate. They discover that Mrs. Starch, Duane, and swamp rat Twilly Spree are trying to reunite a Florida panther cub with its mother, and defeat an oil company engaged in illegal drilling.

COMMENTS
"Scat" is destined to become a middle-school reading standard, at least in Florida. What the students will remember most is their teacher's awkward explanation of the title. And then, of course, every year older kids will spread the old joke regarding Duane's last name (the past pluperfect of ...)--which will set him in concrete as an unforgettable character. This is typical Hiaasen humor--"kid's scatological", even in his adult books. It is more appropriate here, and honestly, just good fun.

This is a particularly great book for parents to read with older elementary to middle school-age kids. There are a host of strong valuable messages for the kids. Parents will enjoy the opportunity to share these messages, while being just as entertained by the story. I wound not suggest reading the book to younger kids----the book may get old on the twentieth successive re-reading.

The illegal oil exploration will undoubtedly strike many readers as far-fetched. Few folks, even in Southwestern Florida, know that petroleum has been produced from the Big Cypress Swamp for nearly 70 years. The few operating horsehead pumps are actually a scenic attraction.

The audio version may be tempting. Resist the temptation. Ed Asner's narration is inconsistent, and he mispronounces several place names. Asner's attempts at Southern accents are lame. He mispronounced the name of the local Native American Miccosukee tribe (correctly pronounced "mic-o-sukey) as "micuss-a-key", and mispronounced Fakahatchee (a portion of the Big Cypress) with a "uck" instead of the "ak". Really! I replayed the section 5 times to be sure. I suppose Ed Asner was chosen for his public image as a lovable curmudgeon. He has never seemed so to me.

THE VERDICT
Hiaasen has finally found his niche--kid's books which adults will love. His adult books are wildly humorous and entertaining, but surreal, possibly best described as "severely mentally disturbed 19-year-old guy humor". His kid's books are much better.

> Click on “Stoney” just below the product title to see my other reviews, or leave a comment to ask a question.